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Charles Lawrence — From Stephenson's Tour to Australia's First Professional Coach, 1862
Albert Cricket Club, Sydney; later New South Wales
1862-04-01
When the H.H. Stephenson tour of 1861-62 ended in March 1862, the Surrey-Middlesex left-armer Charles Lawrence stayed behind in Sydney rather than sail home. Engaged by the Albert Cricket Club at Redfern at £300 a year, he became the first paid professional cricket coach in Australian history, captained New South Wales, opened a sports goods shop in George Street, and laid the structural foundations on which the colonial game grew toward Test status.
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